The Journal of Edward Ward 1850-51: Being His Account of the Voyage to New Zealand in the 'Charlotte Jane' and the First Six Months of the Canterbury Settlement

No signatures. Moderate foxing to endpapers. ; 222 pages + portrait frontispiece + maps on endpapers. Red cloth boards. Page dimensions: 245 x 147mm. New Zealand history. A journal kept by the colonist Edward Ward, partly kept on board the ship Charlotte Jane, which sailed from Plymouth, England on 7 September 1850, arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 16th December 1850, as the first ship to arrive of the first fleet of four ships bringing colonists to the Canterbury settlement. ; 4to

Title: The Journal of Edward Ward 1850-51: Being His Account of the Voyage to New Zealand in the 'Charlotte Jane' and the First Six Months of the Canterbury Settlement